Man Stabbed on Gleason Circle

One man has been stabbed and taken to Erlanger after a disorder Saturday afternoon.

According to ERPD Assistant Chief Stan Allen, police were called to 3309 Gleason Circle at about 3:40 p.m. on a disorder. When officers arrived they discovered a man had been stabbed.

Chief Allen said the incident stemmed from a car running into a house on the street, Thursday. Chief Allen said the victim and the suspect are “acquaintances.” The victim was taken to Erlanger where he is being treated for non life-threatening injuries.

Police did not name the suspect in the incident, but are currently seeking warrants for the man’s arrest.

East Ridge News Online will update this story as more information becomes available.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.